TENNIS

                                TENNIS

•                         Tennis is a sport usually played between two players (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). 

•                         Each player uses a racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net and into the opponent's court. 

•                         The object of the game is to play the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a good return. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all ages. 

•                         The sport can be played by anyone who can hold a racket, including people in wheelchairs.

                                                  TENNIS COURT DIMENSIONS

•             Tennis is played on a rectangular, flat surface, usually grass, clay, a hardcourt of concrete, and/or asphalt and occasionally carpet (indoor). 

•             The court is 78 feet (23.77 m) long, and 27 feet (8.23 m) wide for singles matches and 36 ft (10.97 m) for doubles matches. 

•              Additional clear space around the court is required in order for players to reach overrun balls. A net is stretched across the full width of the court, parallel with the baselines, dividing it into two equal ends. 

•              The net is 3 feet 6 inches (1.07 m) high at the posts and 3 feet (0.914 m) high in the center. 

•              The net posts are 3 feet (0.914 m) outside the doubles court on each side or, for a singles net, 3 feet (0.914 m) outside the singles court on each side.

                                                  TENNIS RACQUET AND BALLS

BADMINTON

                             Badminton

•                   Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles) or two opposing pairs (doubles), who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. 

•                   Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their opponents' half of the court. 

•                   Each side may only strike the shuttlecock once before it passes over the net. 

•                   A rally ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor, or if a fault has been called by either the umpire or service judge or, in their absence, the offending player, at any time during the rally.

                                                            Badminton Court.

•                 The court is rectangular and divided into halves by a net. 

•                 Courts are usually marked for both singles and doubles play, although badminton rules permit a court to be marked for singles only. 

•                 The doubles court is wider than the singles court, but both are of same length. 

•                 The exception, which often causes confusion to newer players, is that the doubles court has a shorter serve-length dimension.

                                                                Serving Method.

•                             The legal bounds of a badminton court during various stages of a rally for singles and doubles games.

                                                 Badminton Racquets and Shuttlecocks

                             

 

FOOTBALL

                            FOOTBALL

•                   Football refers to a number of sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball with the foot to score a goal. 

•                   The most popular of these sports worldwide is association football, more commonly known as just "football" or "soccer". 

•                   Unqualified, the word football applies to whichever form of football is the most popular in the regional context in which the word appears, including association football, as well as American football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football and other related games. 

•                   These variations of football are known as football codes.

•                   Various forms of football can be identified in history, often as popular peasant games. Contemporary codes of football can be traced back to the codification of these games at English public schools in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. 

•                   The influence and power of the British Empireallowed these rules of football to spread to areas of British influence outside of the directly controlled Empire, though by the end of the nineteenth century, distinct regional codes were already developing: Gaelic Football, for example, deliberately incorporated the rules of local traditional football games in order to maintain their heritage. 

•                     In 1888, The Football League was founded in England, becoming the first of many professional football competitions. 

•                     During the twentieth century, the various codes of football became amongst the most popular team sports in the world.

CRICKET

                               CRICKET

•                Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on a roughly circular field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. 

•                Each team takes it in turn to bat, in which they attempt to accumulate as many runs as possible, while the other team fields, attempting to prevent the batting team scoring runs. Teams may bat once or twice each depending upon the format of the game. 

•                 Each turn is known as an innings. 

•                 The game progresses as one member of the fielding team known as the bowler delivers the ball to the batsman down the length of the pitch. 

•                 The batsman then attempts to strike the ball with his bat so that the ball either reaches the boundary or travels far enough away from a fielder to enable him to run to the other end of the pitch and thus accumulate runs. 

•                 Each batsman may continue batting until he is dismissed. 

•                 Once ten batsmen from the batting side have been dismissed, the team is said to be all out and the two teams change roles. A person who plays cricket is called a cricketer

                                                              PLAYING SURFACE

•                  Cricket is played on a grassy field. The Laws of Cricket do not specify the size or shape of the field, but it is often oval. In the centre of the field is a rectangular strip, known as the pitch.

Cricket Pitch Dimensions

•                     The pitch is a flat surface 10 feet (3.0 m) wide, with very short grass that tends to be worn away as the game progresses. At either end of the pitch, 22 yards (20 m) apart, are placed wooden targets, known as the wickets. These serve as a target for the bowling (also known as the fielding) side and are defended by the batting side, which seeks to accumulate runs.

CRICKET STUMP

•        A wicket consists of three stumps that are hammered into the ground, and topped with two bails.

Two Types of Cricket Ball

  

Two different types of cricket balls:

i) A used white ball. White balls are mainly utilised in limited overs cricket, especially in matches played at night, under floodlights (left).
ii) A used red ball, Red balls are utilised in Test cricket and first-class cricket and some other forms of cricket (right).
NB Both balls are the same size.

Umpire

•                       The game on the field is regulated by two umpires, one of whom stands behind the wicket at the bowler's end, the other in a position called "square leg", a position 15–20 metres to the side of the "on strike" batsman. The main role of the umpires is to adjudicate on whether a ball is correctly bowled, when a run is scored, and whether a batsman is out 
•                        Off the field and in televised matches, there is often a third umpire who can make decisions on certain incidents with the aid of video evidence. The third umpire is mandatory under the playing conditions for Test matches and limited overs internationals played between two ICC full members. These matches also have a match referee whose job is to ensure that play is within the Laws of cricket and the spirit of the game.

                                                    A typical Bowling action

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